RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION GROUP SCHEDULE
2019 Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
TUESDAY 6/18
1.1 SEAWRIGHT
1.1.1
Vinicius de melo Justo, Ohio State University,
demelojusto.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu, Dominant Parties and Conflict in Southern
Africa
1.1.2
Ekaterina Paustyan, Central European University,
Paustyan_Ekaterina@phd.ceu.edu, Explaining Gubernatorial Survival in Russia
1.1.3
Yakasah Wehyee, University of Minnesota, wehye002@umn.edu, The Fallen Whig: The
Rise and Fall of Hegemonic Party Autocracy in Liberia
1.2 MAHONEY
1.2.1
Laura Hosman, University of Denver, laura.hosman5@gmail.com, Strategic
Litigation in Latin America: When indigenous social movements and civil society
activism check corporate misbehavior
1.2.2
Gabriel Nahmias, MIT, gnahmias@mit.edu, Theories of Power and Theories of
Change: The Origins of Civil Society Advocacy Strategies
1.2.3
Lisa-Marie Selvik, University of Bergen, Lisa.Selvik@uib.no, Pro-Democracy
Activists' Strategies in Africa
1.3 GOERTZ
1.3.1
Nussaiba Ashraf Mohamed Abdelsamee, Cairo University, nussaibaashraf@feps.edu.eg,
Resisting hegemony in world system: a study in comparative patterns since the
end of cold war
1.3.2
Karst Brandsma, Tufts University, Karst.brandsma@tufts.edu, With Friends Like
These: An Analysis of the Factors that Exacerbate Military Defection
1.3.3
Takuya Matsuda, King's College London, takuya.tg677@gmail.com, Great Power
Strategies and Alliance Politics: Are Allies an Asset or a Liability for Great
Powers in times of Power Shifts?
1.4 WEDEEN
1.4.1
Heba Al-Adawy, Australian National University, Heba.Aladawy@anu.edu.au,
Understanding Youth Development and Engagement in Pakistani Higher Education
Sector
1.4.2
Mathilde Cecchini, Aarhus University, mcecchini@ps.au.dk, “I Am a Leader and a
Doctor, but Above All I Am Human” Examining the Identities of Executive
Consultants in the Danish Health Care Sector
1.4.3
Dion Nania, New School for Social Research, nanid359@newschool.edu, Custodial
workers and prison strikes: contesting the reproduction of mass incarceration
1.5 MAZZARELLA AND MAJUMDAR
1.5.1
Carlos Contreras, The University of New Mexico, ccontreras@unm.edu,
Institutional Responses to Sexual Assault and Harassment in Mexican
Universities
1.5.2
Carissa Cunningham, Rutgers University, cac544@rutgers.edu, The Power of the Earthworm:
A Comparison of Trans* Military Accession Policy in the Republic of Korea and
the United States
1.5.3
Denise Zambezi, University of Pretoria, denisezambezi@gmail.com, The right of
transgender people to access healthcare in South Africa: social and legal study
WEDNESDAY 6/19
2.1 SEAWRIGHT
2.1.1 Veronica Hurtado, The University of British Columbia,
vhurtado@alumni.ubc.ca, The Authoritarian Curse: The effects of resource wealth
on social networks and democratic attitudes
2.1.2 Fakhridho Susilo, The Australian National University,
fakhridho.susilo@anu.edu.au, The Politics of Public Resource Distribution in
Decentralized Indonesia
2.1.3 Yuan Wang, University of Oxford, yuan.wang@politics.ox.ac.uk,
Governing infrastructure: The politics of Sino-Africa infrastructure
development
2.2 MAHONEY
2.2.1 Gabriella Levy, Duke University, Gabriella.Levy@duke.edu, Winning
with Ballots, Not Bullets: Support for Former Combatants Running for Office
2.2.2 Dana Moyer, University of Virginia, dkmoyer@virginia.edu, Competing
for Citizenship and Claiming Territory in Civil War
2.2.3 Maria Laura Veramendi Garcia, Syracuse University,
mveramen@syr.edu, The Comparative Politics of Health Policies in Latin America:
Private-Sector Firms and Policy Reforms in Chile and Peru
2.3 GOERTZ
2.3.1 Deborah Groen, Georgetown University, dg775@georgetown.edu, What
Drives Variation in how Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Groups Engage with the
U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment Issues?
2.3.2 Sam Hayes, Boston College, sam.hayes@bc.edu, Courtroom
Cartography: Analyzing the Role U.S. Courts in Redistricting
2.3.3 SoRelle Wyckoff, University of Maryland,
sorellew@terpmail.umd.edu, Come to Order: Witness Testimony and the Motivations
of Congressional Hearings
2.4 MAZZARELLA AND MAJUMDAR
2.4.1 Veysi Dag, University of London, vd7@soas.ac.uk, Institutions,
Functions and Meanings of Stateless Diasporas as Trans-border Pillar of
Self-Governmentality in the Homeland and Abroad: A Case Study of Kurdish
Diaspora Institutions in Berlin and Jerusalem
2.4.2 Colleen Elizabeth Wood, Columbia University, cw3047@columbia.edu,
Assessing Why and How States Pursue Ethnic Return Migration
2.4.3 Basil Zeno, University of Massachusetts Amherst, bzeno@umass.edu,
Violence, Liminality, and Identity (re)Formation in Exile: the Case of Syrian
Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in the United States
2.5 ELMAN
2.5.1 Jeremy Gwinn, Tufts University, jeremy.gwinn@tufts.edu,
Anticipating Blowback: Explaining Outcomes in U.S. Unconventional Warfare
Campaigns
2.5.2 Christian Oswald, Trinity College Dublin, coswald@tcd.ie,
Explaining and predicting the adoption, timing and location of terrorism in
civil conflicts
2.5.3 Jayme Schlesinger, Rutgers University,
jayschle@scarletmail.rutgers.edu, How Religion Effects the Nature of Terrorism
THURSDAY 6/20
3.1 SEAWRIGHT
3.1.1 Justin Canfil, Columbia University, j.canfil@columbia.edu,
Governing the Uncommons: the Impact of Technological Change on International
Law
3.1.2 Paul Kemp, University of Denver, paulkemp39@hotmail.com, Dirty
Money Management: Explaining Variation in US Government Action Against Illicit
Finance
3.1.3 Wenzhi Lu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
wluab@connect.ust.hk, Overcoming Information Constraints: Disincentivizing
Falsification of Local Statistics in China
3.2 GOERTZ
3.2.1 Mohammed Ouhemmou, Hassan II University, ouhemou@gmail.com, The
Internationalization of Moroccan Higher Education: An Empirical Investigation
of the Experience of Sub-Saharan Students in Moroccan Universities.
3.2.2 Cynthia Parayiwa, The Australian National University,
Cynthia.Parayiwa@anu.edu.au, Effects of cyclone events on pregnancies in
Queensland, Australia- impact and outcomes
3.2.3 Amali Wedagedara, University of Hawaii, amali@hawaii.edu, Debt
and Political Subjectivity: A study of indebtedness among low-income households
in Sri Lanka
3.3 GRANT AND DODMAN
3.3.1 Vinessa Buckland, Syracuse University, vdbuckla@syr.edu, Judicial
Partisanship: the Impact of Party Policy Change on Eighth Amendment
Jurisprudence
3.3.2 Stephen Phillips, University of Florida, scphillips@ufl.edu,
Refounding: How the Constitution Shapes American Political Development
3.3.3 Yu-Hsien Sung, University of South Carolina, ysung@email.sc.edu,
Prosecutorial discretion and career motives
3.4 SCHNEIDER AND THOMANN
3.4.1 Laura de Castro Quaglia, University of Texas at Austin,
lauracquaglia@gmail.com, National Security Reform in the U.S.: How 9/11 made
way for a long overdue change
3.4.2 Jonathan G. Panter, Columbia University, jgp2134@columbia.edu,
Authoritarian military effectiveness across domains
3.4.3 Jaganath Sankaran, University of Texas at Austin,
jaganath@austin.utexas.edu, Destruction and Terror from a Distance: Missiles
and Weak State Coercion in War
3.5 HIDALGO
3.5.1 Elsa Talat Khwaja, George Mason University, Schar School of
Policy and Government, ekhwaja@masonlive.gmu.edu, The Network Architecture of
Development Interventions: Exploring the Relational Dynamics of Aid-Impact
within Pakistan and Afghanistan
3.5.2 Irene Morlino, The London School of Economics and Political
Science, I.Morlino@lse.ac.uk, European Union humanitarian aid: effectiveness
and coordination
MONDAY 6/24
4.1 KAPISZEWSKI
4.1.1 Sultan Alamer, George Washington University, alamer@gwu.edu,
Minorities Without Majorities: The Origins of the Territorial State and
Sectarianism in the Arab Middle East
4.1.2 Tara Ginnane, University of Texas at Austin,
tara.ginnane@gmail.com, The National Membership Politics of External Voting
4.1.3 Karla Mundim, University of Florida, karlamundim@ufl.edu,
Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America: A Long-Range Approach to Ethnicity
and Nationalism in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador
4.2 MACLEAN
4.2.1 Donia Smaali Bouhlila, University of Tunis El Manar, donia.smaali@gmail.com,
Conflicts and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
4.2.2 Mary Langan, Johns Hopkins SAIS, mlangan3@jhu.edu, South Sudan:
Administrative Boundary Proliferation and Conflict
4.2.3 Esmeranda Manful, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,
emanful.cass@knust.edu.gh, Assessment of child neglect in Ghana: quest for an
effective intervention threshold model
4.3 JACOBS
4.3.1 Angela Garcia, London School of Economics,
angela.garcia.calvo@post.harvard.edu, Reaching the efficiency frontier:
State-firm coordination and industrial upgrading in skill-, capital-, and
knowledge-intensive industries
4.3.2 Alix Jansen, University of Toronto, alix.jansen@mail.utoronto.ca,
Skills for Whom? Inequality of Access, Active Labour Market Policies, and Automation
in 21st Century Welfare States
4.3.3 Xiangning Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
xlicl@connect.ust.hk, Structural Change and Social Mobility Before and After
China’s Industrial Take-off in the Mid-20th Century: A Micro-level Study of a
Community in Shanxi Province, North China
4.4 LARSON
4.4.1 Felicity Gray, Australian National University + The New School,
felicity.gray@anu.edu.au, Reshaping boundaries of civilian protection: the
challenge of a nonviolent approach
4.4.2 Layla Hashemi, George Mason University, lhashem2@gmu.edu, Protest
and Resistance in Authoritarian Contexts
4.4.3 Espen Stokke, University of Bergen, Espen.Stokke@uib.no,
Mobilizing for Justice in the Middle East: Comparative Case Study of Diasporas
Seeking Truth and Reconciliation in the Homeland
4.5 SCHAFFER
4.5.1 Christy Brandly (aka Monet), University of Chicago,
christymonet@uchicago.edu, Mythmaking and Statebuilding in Post-Civil War
America and Post-Soviet Russia
4.5.2 Marissa Kemp, London School of Economics and Political Science,
M.L.Kemp@lse.ac.uk, Constructing Combatants: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems,
Human-Robot Relationships, and Contemporary Warfare
4.5.3 Anya Ce Liang, University of Cambridge, cl714@cam.ac.uk, Glorious
Past Vulnerable Present: Great Power Re-emergence in World Politics
WEDNESDAY 6/26
5.1 KREUZER
5.1.1 Hande Abay Gaspar, PRIF (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt),
abay@hsfk.de, Variance of Salafist radicalization processes
5.1.2 Emma Rosenberg, University of Notre Dame, erosenbe@nd.edu,
Religious Appeals as a Political Strategy in Central Europe
5.1.3 Bilal Shakir, McGill University, bilal.shakir@mail.mcgill.ca,
Regulating the Religious in the Islamic leviathan: An analysis of religion and
political stability in Indonesia and Pakistan (1969-1977)
5.2 SAUNDERS
5.2.1 Yi-ting Chiu, George Mason University, ychiu@masonlive.gmu.edu,
What creates a Village? -- the Socio-economic Factors of "the Village
movement."
5.2.2 Tae Hyun Lim, Syracuse University, talim@syr.edu, Policy Agenda
and Media Agenda in South Korean Family Policy Development
5.2.3 Mary Ann Joy Robles Quirapas, National University of Singapore,
mquirapas@u.nus.edu, Renewable Energy Adoption in Poor Rural Areas in the
Philippines: Why Communities Matter
5.3 LOWE
5.3.1 Olivia Nantermoz, London School of Economics and Political
Science, O.Nantermoz-Benoit-Gonin@lse.ac.uk, 'Humanity Must Be Defended' -
Penal Humanitarianism in World Politics
5.3.2 Valentina Salas Ramos, University of Minnesota, salas040@umn.edu,
“¡Están violando mis derechos!”: Identifying everyday rights violations as
legal problems in Chile
5.3.3 Ezgi Yildiz, Graduate Institute, Geneva,
ezgi.yildiz@graduateinstitute.ch, How do Norms Evolve? Legal Frames for
Expansion
5.4 BENNETT
5.4.1 Julie Liebenguth, Colorado State University,
Julianne.Liebenguth@colostate.edu, Agents of Environmental Security: Emerging
Sources of Legitimacy and Accountability in Global Environmental Governance
5.4.2 Yon Soo Park, Harvard University, yonsoo_park@g.harvard.edu, Constructing
Threats: Empirical Study on the Politics of Security Framing
5.5 WALDNER
5.5.1 Stefano Burzo, University of British Columbia, s.burzo@alumni.ubc.ca,
Reputation in International Agreements: Dispute Settlement and Foreign Direct
Investment
5.5.2 Walter James, Temple University, tug78013@temple.edu, Financial
Stability and the Politics of Regulatory Reputation
5.5.3 Keith Preble, University of Albany, kpreble@albany.edu, Sectors
and Motivations: Toward a Typology Sanctions Busting
5.6 PACHIRAT
5.6.1 Janel Jett, Purdue University, jettj@purdue.edu, Social
Constructions of Aging on Television: The United States and South Korea
5.6.2 Luisa Turbino Torres, University of Delaware, lttorres@udel.edu,
From the streets to the field: Feminist activism around soccer in Brazil
5.6.3 Thomas Worth, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
tsworth@wisc.edu, Social Media Speech Acts and the Politics of Topping: A
Gender Analysis of the Relationship Between Trump and Kim Jong-un
THURSDAY 6/27
6.1 KREUZER
6.1.1 Nicholas Bell, University of Pennsylvania, belln@sas.upenn.edu,
What Kinds of Welfare Do Workers Want? Investigating the Demand-side of
Embedded Liberalism
6.1.2 Gwen Prowse, Yale University, gwen.prowse@yale.edu, “The City
Lives in Fear of the State”: Explaining Local Policy Activism in the Era of
Preemption
6.1.3 Brooke Shannon, University of Texas at Austin,
brooke.shannon224@gmail.com, Explaining the Local Policy Agenda
6.2 BENNETT
6.2.1 Ugur Altundal, Syracuse University, ualtunda@syr.edu, Travel
Freedom and Democratic Diffusion
6.2.2 Abby Fanlo, Stanford University, afanlo@stanford.edu, Crises of
Commitment: How Shocks to Security Guarantees Impact International Conflict
6.2.3 Kristine Tockman, Georgetown University, kat4@georgetown.edu,
Face-to-Face Diplomacy in the Digital Age: A Photo Op or Security Tool?
6.3 ELMAN
6.3.1 Joseph Becker, Johns Hopkins University, Jbecke24@jhu.edu,
Institutionalized Conflict: The U.S.-Iranian Relationship
6.3.2 Gary Sampson, Tufts University, Gary.sampson@tufts.edu,
"With no lips, the teeth get cold": Chinese influence and the
development of the North Korean nuclear weapons program, 1990-present
6.3.3 Timothy Urban,, Timothy.urban@tufts.edu, Guarding the Guardians:
Challenges to Security Sector Efficiency and Accountability in Latin America
6.4 FAIRFIELD
6.4.1 Tessa Evans, Cornell University, tessadevans@gmail.com, Under
what conditions do African states implement gender equality in family law?
6.4.2 Elizabeth McCallion, Queen's University, 16em2@queensu.ca, Who
Acts for Women? A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Substantive Representation in
the Canadian House of Commons and Senate
6.5 SCHAFFER
6.5.1 Geneva Cole, University of Chicago, genevacole@uchicago.edu, Red,
White, and Anti-Black: Nationalism and Group Boundaries in American Politics
6.5.2 Amanda Jadidi D'Urso, Northwestern University,
amandadurso2021@u.northwestern.edu, Middle Eastern and North African Identity
in America, or You MENA I'm not white?
6.5.3 Charles Turner, University of Utah, u1149289@utah.edu, Muslim-Americans
and Political Party Socialization